Pasquale DiMeola

Good men come forward now
A world in need...Indeed
Uphold your sacred vow
We long for you to lead
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First the perspiration on the forehead
Then a tense outburst of inner emotions
Followed by a profusion of mingled words
Struggling against themselves to frame thought
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Before the wind has blown the breath
Of simple words away
While in the future lays a wreath
From which a friend has laid
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At the instant when the heart
Jettisons out of the mouth
Misery will play its part
To instill an awful doubt
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One envisions a swirl of mayhem
With an oceanic perpetuity splashing
Against the involuted classes marching
Stoically providential as in the masterpiece
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Through the market by the square
You can find him most anywhere
The spread and the rustic guide your nose
So popular...everyone goes
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Bending over backward until my spine cracked
Dizzy from echoes of your tirades
Psycho enough to trigger heart attacks
Weak as a jellyfish in biodegrade
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Onion has a little brother
Packs quite a pungent smell
Comparable to no other
With roots that stretch to hell
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Autumn leaves red ochre and sun golden
Gliding from the trees to a breeze
Nearer to a winter so embolden
Makes a shivering soul sneeze and wheeze
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You with your incorrigible smile
Drawn into everything purely vile
As your spirits soar with the bats of hell
The vapors of evil enhance the smell
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As brittle as a kitten
Pawing at a dandelion
Or maybe an old mule sitting
Until he's sleepily lying
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It's never what I did expect
Your totality of neglect
Invisible as I might be
Explains why you stare straight through me
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We have scales of human value
Weighing all the best parts
Discarding unappetizing souls
Enjoying the best of everything
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World in turmoil is a world in woe
It crowds the terrain everywhere you go
The crying and fighting against what foe
Box it all up and tie it in a bow
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An orchid on her hair wilted
Petals did they dropp one by one
Abruptly her true lover tilted
Snide whims to another for fun
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May we overdose on love as such
Our hearts are pounding concord
Smitten with a romance inasmuch
Two souls can journey toward
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Come fall we lie in Autumn leaves
Under the rambling gust that blows
It fans the fervour like arrow bows.
A scorching kiss my lips receives
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To cleanse the mind of hatred's raging pain
Embedded like a common tick
Blood-letting out the bad so good remains
A crusted scab swelled up too quick
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Only precious girls
Can give you melted pearls
When they are weeping woe
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Come bring us all a clown or two
A joker or a jester
Too many faces looking blue
Allowing gloom to fester
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